- Seller Inventory #: 000405
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good-
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Morrow and Co.
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1993
- Keywords: Fiction Mystery
New York, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1993 Page edges darkening. Chipping and rubbing to dust jacket extremities; spine sunned. No rips or tears to book or jacket, now in protective Brodart cover.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Brodart : Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The name refers to the company by the same name which produces many book repair and archival products.
